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  • edited 2016-08-06 21:20:45
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    Section: Personally, I blame you.
  • ... Why did nobody mention Kill La Kill?

    I actually was gonna just embed a picture of the title card but I was caught offguard by the Saikano rec.
  • kill living beings
    anidb doesn't have enough tags so something mangaless like kill the kills ain't show me

    sad but true
  • edited 2016-08-08 06:44:22
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    Crystal said:

    I really wish I could confidently rate the Ghost Stories gag dub a solid 9, like I had hoped and expected, instead of a 6-7 (probably 7 since when it works it really works for me).

    Was charitable and rated it a 7 in the end due to being, far as I can tell, relatively unique at least where English dubs are concerned. It was fun enough overall. The improv is decent and the one-note works somewhat better as a comedy where all of them were one-note anyway, and throwing out the plot save for the bare bones is about the only way I can see meaningfully improving something as anemic and episodic as this. Unfortunately, sometimes it goes from audacious and irreverent to outright tasteless and punching down (which only increases as they really get comfortable with it). And fittingly the anime just kinda ends, which was its own unstated joke not brought down (for me) by the self-awareness of it all.

    Mostly, though, I'm left wanting a show that does right everything this show does wrong. Kids to young adults encountering and maturing through spooooooky phenomenon, and that phenomenon itself becoming commonplace or bending/playing with/etc. the boundaries, is my cup of tea. Bonus points for FRIENDSHIP because I can be a sap, and/or surprisingly horrific concepts and encounters and so on.

  • edited 2016-08-08 06:47:27
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Crystal said:

    Was charitable and rated it a 7 in the end due to being, far as I can tell, relatively unique at least where English dubs are concerned.

    Samurai Pizza Cats.

    Speaking of which, I completely forgot that was on my list until now. Huh.
  • edited 2016-08-08 06:48:50
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    S a a a m e. I actually remembered it in my wiki walking and searching for similar over the course of this. Still, thanks for reminding me, I don't think I've actually put it on my MAL... Fixed.
  • edited 2016-08-08 22:20:00
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    me cooking

    also i guess gyoza is meatloaf in a bag with more garlic. nice
  • Also, is there a way to get a larger female demographic for a series with a female lead? Often times it's been Shojo, but that's on the decline, and Shonen tends to have larger female congregations.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    You don't seem very familiar with the current anime landscape. While most shows each season are inevitably either the next shounen property or late-night otaku-bait, shoujo and josei stuff has really been coming back in a big way of late. Teenage girls have always been an economic powerhouse, but with more and more girls and young women getting into "nerdy" things across the world, or better asserting themselves in those spaces, the specialist market is being forced to respond.

    And over here at least, some of the best regarded series of the last few years have been female-lead series targeted primarily at female viewers. Two that immediately leap to mind are Yona of the Dawn and Snow White with the Red Hair, and I think Flying Witch also falls into this category. There are also shows which have gained quite a following on both sides of the Pacific which, while they have obvious hobbyist appeal, are pretty squarely aimed at young girls, such as Love Live! or the five zillion PreCure series.

    Like, seriously, shoujo anime in decline? Maybe a decade ago, sure.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    I also have to point out how Osomatsu-san's popularity in Japan primarily came from young women.
  • edited 2016-08-09 00:53:55
    I am unaware of current trends in anime confirmed D:

    What is Josei all about?
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    It's actually six million, geez.

    And yeah, LL! and Precure and The Idol Master came to mind, among many other shows.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Oh, and Orange, which, while the comic was moved to a seinen magazine later in its run, has a massive following over there among both male and female readers but especially the latter.

    It's also being directed for television by the guy who directed Texhnolyze. Which is a bit odd, but thank ye gods he's getting steady work.
  • What's Orange about?
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Basically, there's this girl who gets a letter from her future self about things that she will regret if she doesn't do them differently. One of these involves a new classmate of hers, who her future self was unable to save from some horrible fate.
  • That's fucking fascinating.
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    Serocco3 said:

    What is Josei all about?

    it's a genre. women, like how seinen is men. chihayafuru, nodame cantabile, and princess jellyfish are popular examples
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    It's pretty nice so far, whether we're talking overall or based on the individual components.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    Serocco3 said:

    What is Josei all about?

    it's a genre. women, like how seinen is men. chihayafuru, nodame cantabile, and princess jellyfish are popular examples
    Well, less a genre in the typical sense than a demographic designator. In a nutshell: Women out of high school (roughly 18-25) is josei, men of the same age is seinen, younger guys and gals are shounen and shoujo respectively, and prepubescent weans are in the kodomo category.
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    er. yeah. that's what i meant to mean. oops.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. The weird contrasts are interesting. It's not entirely successful thus far, as it seems to be establishing a formula which will shift and escalate as the series continues, and of course the comedy in the lighter bits is almost self-consciously lame much of the time, but the art direction on the creepy bits is great, and now and then there is an Azumanga Daioh-quality character joke that just works—like finding Colonel Sanders.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    It is also worth noting that the subtler, weirder aspects of the horror bits that play up the main character's paranoia as something sinister and volatile in itself are pretty neat. It's all well and good to have a character who feels threatened by a vague conspiracy against them, but it's much more interesting when their growing suspicion is, from an outside perspective, clearly itself part of that special plan.
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    That show was fun until I forgot about it. /TheCrystalStory
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    It's fairly clever and quite engaging, but I feel like—and this is just me talking three or so episodes in, so I could turn out completely wrong—it suffers a little from being the first television show to go down the road of combining moe-moe aesthetics (in this case of the doinky harem comedy/slice-of-life type) with a horror/suspense undercarriage that harshly contrasts with the initial presentation. At this point, it's something of a high art in anime, and Japan already had the abunakawaii concept out there, but the way in which Higurashi combines the two, and what sorts of niches and unexpected similarities between them it tapped into in the process, was fairly novel in the medium, particularly in the mainstream. And the results are kind of rough around the edges: Teen comedies and slasher movies are both schlocky genres, so throwing the two together and seeing what happens is going to have some weird, specific issues.

    But, again, I've heard that it gets better as it goes on, and stranger to boot, and it's pretty addictive thus far.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    And hey, already the fourth episode was pants-on-head insane and genuinely shocking at points!

    This should be interesting, to say the least.
  • kill living beings
    i remember seeing part of an episode in high school. people knifin the fuck out of each other but i could not stand the animation. nope. all those eyes through hair. i'm so shallow. The Tzestory

    i've been told i should play umineko, too
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    The animation is not the best, no, but it kind of just turns into background noise after a while, and the use of shading is striking enough to offset the problem in the serious scenes.
  • edited 2016-08-09 08:12:19
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    ...I kinda wish I could record my immediate reactions to some of the shit that's going down in this show at this juncture, because I am genuinely taken aback at some of this. In a good way. It's like the visual equivalent to Diamanda Galás' "Wild Women with Steak Knives" up in here. Crazy shit.
  • there is probably tons of good seinen that I am just not aware of but the thing the word immediately brings to mind is An Inordinately High Number Of Needles or whatever that manga's called, and other such "death for death's sake" type properties.
  • edited 2016-08-09 16:01:32
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    obviously there's a lot of shit, you know how us 18-35 y.o. males are. but there's enough good stuff that seinen is why i started paying attention to publishers; the first manga magazine i cared about was the seinen Afternoon, which published/s e.g. Blame!, Makoto Shinkai stuff, Mushishi, Houseki no Kuni.
  • Like I said. I know my perception is wrong but find myself unable to change it for some reason.

    I mean hell I think SEL is seinen technically.
  • kill living beings
    yeah, maybe. it's less clear cut when it's not in a magazine.
  • An Inordinately High Number of Lains
  • Lain is a precious cinnamon roll who also is LITERALLY A DEITY.
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    Now I'm just thinking about Tower of God.
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    i have the transcript of the video game but i haven't read it all the way through. it's notable in that lain kind of acts like a normal person slightly
  • I had the game for an emulator for a while.

    It was in Japanese which I don't speak and thus mostly unplayable, but it was interesting.
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    KochiKame is getting a special in Japan.

    I might have to watch it.
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    Yes it is.
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    I have decided to add Your Lie In April to my list.
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    (Danganronpa 3 Despair Arc Ep 2 spoilers)

    Spoiler:

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    no.
    don't do this to me show.
    don't hurt me like this.
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    well known non-sufferer of despair, makoto naegi
  • My dreams exceed my real life
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  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Oh dear.
  • edited 2016-08-12 05:20:43

    teekyuu may be the first anime to mention settlers of catan
  • Catan interested and confuddled me when I attempted to play it
  • to be fair, Kishimoto did have a good grasp on making characters interesting, and early Naruto was very fraught with genuinely tense moments
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